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Coffee Times's avatar

Your journey in confronting the fear of loneliness and the realization that you have all the 'coins' within you is both poignant and inspiring. The way you embraced the solitude, faced your fears, and found a sense of peace is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Thank you for sharing this deeply personal and introspective journey.

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Monica Nastase's avatar

Thank you for reading and your kind words, Winston! I like your perspective, to look at my lockdown experience as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Beautiful words! 👏🏽

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Sheila's avatar

“Peace and feeling safe are important in society because, otherwise, people turn into beasts.”

Moisturised beasts may I add 😆

There’d been mega offers in Carrefour the week before and my then boyfriend now husband had bought a whole load of stuff. It looked like we’d panic bought but we were actually just bargain hunters 😅

You were in Spain for the lockdown right? Woweee it was a toughy.

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Monica Nastase's avatar

Hahah *optionally* moisturized beasts! 😄

Yes, I was living in Barcelona, quite the challenge after the first 5-6 weeks of bliss.

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Sheila's avatar

I can imagine! So you’d only just moved and went into lockdown?

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Monica Nastase's avatar

No, I moved into that flat I talk about in the chapters about a year before the lockdown. But now you made me realize that I condensed that year so much that in the story it seems that the lockdown started right after moving in. 😱🤫🤫

Well, my future editor will have fun with that haha.

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Sheila's avatar

Haha 🤣 We’ve got to keep those future editors on their toes!

We’d only just moved to our town in the 7 months before lockdown and I’d had surgery 5 months before lockdown. So it was a tough start!

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Monica Nastase's avatar

Oh yes, it sounds like it. Almost 4 years ago, believe it or not. 🙄

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Sheila's avatar

Crazy! It’s mad how quick the time flies, though covid time was weird time, it passed at a different speed.

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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

Wow... I was way off in the wilderness on my farm away from the maddnes... but I was on a cruise ship in Aruba when it hit... and got off JUST in time for the last flight back.

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Monica Nastase's avatar

Lucky!

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